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The Giants defensive leader told WFAN’s Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton on Tuesday that he didn’t have an exam on his aggravated neck as reported, but appeared to hint that something else could have been looked at.

“The neck’s good,” said Tuck. “Just precautionary stuff. It’s football, guys are gonna get banged up. So don’t worry about it, I’ll be out there Sunday.”

According to reports, Tuck had an MRI on his neck Monday. Not so, says the defensive end.

“I did not have an MRI on my neck,” he said. “I don’t know how that got out.”

Emphasis on the “on my neck.” Boomer & Carton weren’t about to let that slide. So did Tuck have an MRI on something else, maybe on his strained groin?

“I think a lot of teams know I have been having a little issue with it,” Tuck told Mike Francesa on Monday. “I don’t want to be Michael Vick here, but they are kind of going at my head a little bit too. It is going to be something that we can battle through and it is something that I can battle through right now. As long as I can battle through it, I am going to continue to play and hopefully we can get it quieted down here.”

“We really did a good job of not paying attention to what people said. I mean, obviously we knew that no one was really giving us a shot but those 53 guys in that locker room,” said Tuck. “But we like it like that. For some reason, though, these teams with the Giants I’ve been on, they play well when no one’s giving them a shot, when we’re kind of backed in a corner.”